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Oscar (Fin⋅gal O'Fla⋅her⋅tie Wills) [fing-guh l oh-fla-her-tee wilz, oh-flair-tee] , (“Sebastian Melmoth”), 1854–1900, Irish poet, dramatist, novelist, essayist, and critic. |
| Wilde (wīld) Irish-born writer. Renowned as a wit in London literary circles, he achieved recognition with The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), a novel. He also wrote plays of lively dialogue, such as The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), and poetry, including The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898). |